Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC
Decades:	170s BC  160s BC  150s BC  - 140s BC -  130s BC  120s BC  110s BC
Years:	150 BC 149 BC 148 BC - 147 BC - 146 BC 145 BC 144 BC

147 BC by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

147 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	147 BC
Ab urbe condita	607
Armenian calendar	N/A
Bahá'í calendar	-1990 – -1989
Berber calendar	804
Buddhist calendar	398
Burmese calendar	-784
Byzantine calendar	5362 – 5363
Chinese calendar	[[Sexagenary cycle|]]年 (2490/2550) — to — 甲年 (2491/2551)
Coptic calendar	-430 – -429
Ethiopian calendar	-154 – -153
Hebrew calendar	3614 – 3615
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	-91 – -90
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2955 – 2956
Holocene calendar	9854
Iranian calendar	768 BP – 767 BP
Islamic calendar	792 BH – 791 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	2187
Thai solar calendar	397
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147 BC was a year in the second century BC.

Events

By place

Rome

• Scipio Aemilianus takes command in the Battle of Carthage.

Syria

• Demetrius II of Syria returns to Syria. (approximate)
• Jonathan Maccabaeus conquers Joppa.

Greece

• Greece becomes a part of the Roman empire

Births

• Lokaksema, a Buddhist monk from Gandhara (modern Pakistan/Afghanistan), Yuezhi in ethnicity, the first to translate Mahayana scriptures into the Chinese language during the Han Dynasty.

Deaths

• Empress Bo